Logitech Vid™
What is Logitech Vid™ HD?
Get into the details of what makes Vid special.
Seeing is believing
What Vid HD lets you do
Have you ever wanted to see someone, even when they were far away? Vid HD makes it easy using your webcam and Internet connection. You see and hear them. They see and hear you.
You can skip the screen names, the hassles, and the complicated settings and get right to smiling faces.
And now with a Logitech HD webcam and Vid HD, you can see the people you care about in breathtaking detail. Find out why a Logitech HD webcam changes everything.
Everyone says easy
What makes Vid HD easy
We built it from the start to let you focus on your friends and family—not making you try to figure out software.
Logitech® Vid™ HD was created specifically for clear, simple video calling. No strangers calling you. No smiley faces made of parentheses. Just real smiling faces.
It’s easy because:
- It takes half the steps to set up than other major calling apps
- You add a friend using their email address—not a screen name search
- You make a video call simply by clicking on your friend’s picture
- It was built to work with your webcam
Me, You and Everyone
Who uses Vid HD
Vid HD is perfect for everyone who:
- Is looking for simplicity—either for themselves or the people they’d like to talk to
- Wants to see and hear family, friends or anyone else, even when they can’t be there in person
- Appreciates a clean, intuitive way to talk, built specifically for video calling
- Doesn’t want or need the extra features of more complicated software
- Has a high-speed Internet connection
- Don’t want to give up video or audio quality to get something easy to use
It’s all good
The webcams that work with Vid
Logitech Vid HD is free for anyone with any Logitech webcam—and any other manufacturer’s webcam—, whether that webcam is brand new, or one you’ve had for a while.
As Logitech®, we believe that we’ve got a webcam that’s perfect for you. But let’s say you have a webcam from someone else, or a webcam built into your laptop— – you can still use Vid.
You can even use Vid without a webcam at all— – if you’ve got a microphone or headset and don’t mind seeing your friends without being seen.
Our favorite webcamsOur hidden agenda – Why we created Vid™ HD
Even though we’re known for the quality of our webcams, we don’t rest on our reputation. So we’re still constantly working on the webcam experience—in video, in sound, and in usability.
But when we talked to people about what they liked—and didn’t like—about webcams, we saw the biggest opportunity wasn’t about the hardware, but the way people connected to one another with them.
So we made the way people made video calls easy—while still providing true-to-life video quality as good, if not better, than more complicated software.
We created Vid HD to make video calling better for you, from start to finish.
Compatibility with other networks
To keep things simple, Vid HD doesn’t currently connect with Windows Live Messenger™, AIM®, Yahoo! ® Messenger, or Skype™. But there’s nothing that would prevent you from using other IM and calling services in addition to Vid on the same computer.
What you’ll need
Minimum and recommended system requirements
You’ll need a high-speed internet connection with at least 256 kbps upload / download for standard definition and at least 1 Mbps upload / download for HD 720p video calls.
You need a webcam if you want to be seen, and for HD video you will need one of our new HD webcams to transmit HD video.
To be heard, you need a webcam with a built-in mic, a headset, or an external microphone connected to your PC.
As for your computer:
PC : Vid HD works with Windows XP, Microsoft™ Vista, or Windows 7.
You will need a CPU that’s a 2.4 GHz Intel® Core™2 Duo with 2GB of RAM for HD calls and a minimum 1GHz CPU with 512MB RAM for basic video calls.
Macintosh: Vid works with Leopard 10.5.0 or higher, Safari 3.0 or newer. You will need a CPU that’s a 2.8 GHz Intel® Core™2 Duo with 2GB RAM or faster processor for HD calls and a minimum 1GHz Intel based CPU with 512MB RAM for basic video calls.
Other operating systems: Sorry we don’t have a version of Logitech® Vid for Linux, or other operating systems
Display:
You will need a wide screen monitor that is capable of displaying resolutions offering 1280 x 720p resolution or higher for HD video calls.
About your friend’s computer:
To send you an HD video call, your friend’s setup needs to meet the same requirements.
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